Title: Conceptualismos: Researchers' Network on Conceptualisms

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The term “conceptual art” covers a series of artistic practices arisen in the 60’s and 70’s, which appreciate and highlight the process of production above the final work itself.

During the last decade, there have been several isolated attempts in different points of Latin America to recover from oblivion a whole series of cases that prove the different tactical positions and strategic ways of intervention articulated by the Latin-American scene, in order to adapt the global conceptualism to its own social and political context.

Now, it seems to be a favorable moment to consider a possible joint of all these attempts and initiatives in a researchers' network on conceptualisms in Latin America.

The targets of the network are:- To rebuild, document and analyze the practices. - To look into the intersections and interchanges occurred in the Latin-American scene.- To examine the theoretical categories.- To analyze the institutional penalization of these conceptual practices, both at local and international level.- To analyze the legacies and breakings occurred between the conceptualisms of the 60’s and 70’s, and its influence in the present.

The research on the conceptualisms in Latin America in the 60’s and 70’s is still at an early stage and gets an unequal and fragmented treatment in several publications.

Although many people have contributed in different times and situations, thus offering us a scene that shows a wide production, we still notice significant gaps, as well as the absence of works that explain the intersections, joints and differences in the Latin-American framework, the central aim of this project.